Regulation (EU) 2025/2509 lays down rules on the safety of toys to ensure a high level of protection of the health and safety of children and other persons, taking due account of the precautionary principle, and rules on their free movement (Article 1). It applies to products designed or intended, whether or not exclusively, for use in play by children under 14 years of age, with the products listed in Annex I excluded (Article 2). The regulation entered into force on 1 January 2026 and applies from 1 August 2030, when Directive 2009/48/EC is repealed; the provisions on notified bodies and on delegated acts, committee procedure and penalties (Articles 28 to 44 and 49 to 55) apply from 1 January 2026.
Toys must meet the general and particular essential safety requirements of Article 5 and Annex II, which tighten the chemical rules, and carry the warnings required by Article 6. Conformity is assessed by the manufacturer through internal production control where harmonised standards have been applied in full, and by EU-type examination at a notified body in the other cases specified in the regulation. Toys made available on the market must bear the CE marking (Article 17).
The main novelty is Chapter V. Before placing a toy on the market the manufacturer must create a digital product passport that states that compliance has been demonstrated, contains the data in Annex VI, is available for ten years, is connected through a data carrier to a unique product identifier and is registered in the digital product passport registry of the Ecodesign Regulation (Articles 19 to 22). Where the passport contains all the information of the EU declaration of conformity, it replaces it. In Denmark toys are supervised by the Danish Business Authority (Erhvervsstyrelsen), which took over the tasks of the Danish Safety Technology Authority (Sikkerhedsstyrelsen) on 1 January 2026.